On November 5, 2024, police in Auckland, New Zealand arrested 3 Chinese nationals at the airport for targeting immigrant and elderly communities through a blessing scam in which they posed as healers or spiritual practitioners to remove a nonexistent curse. The trio, consisting of a 50-year-old man and two women aged 59 and 53, are in custody and charged with two counts of obtaining by deception aftrer stealing $14,500 and jewelry from one victim, and $15,000 from another.,
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